Teacher and Student Participatory Action Research: A Methodology to Utilize While Navigating Oppressive Schooling Conditions

• In Event: 81.033 - MTCC Roundtable Session 38
  In Roundtable Session: 81.033-1 - Navigating, Building, and Accessing Spaces for Learning and Transformation

Abstract

This qualitative study examined the complexities of mutually engaging across differing positionalities (students and students, students and teacher) while intentionally working in spaces of distress (e.g. push and pull between oppression and liberation). The findings demonstrated how building a beloved community while situated within an oppressive U.S. schooling system, supported students and teacher toward cultivating transformative pedagogy with a collective commitment toward social-eco justice. As a result, this study contributed toward expanding the possibilities for utilizing the process of teacher and student participatory action research (tsPAR) (Author, 2015) and Critical Race Praxis for Educational Research (CRP-Ed) (Blinded & Author, 2015) that honors students and teachers’ agency while working in constricting institutional contexts.

Author

• Annie S. Adamian, California State University - Chico